FKEELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERT MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year - $1 50 Six Months 75 Four Months 60 Two Months 25 Subscribers are requested to observe the date following the name on the labels of their impere. By referring to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on the books in this office. For instance: Grover Cleveland 28June35 means that Grover is paid up to Juno 2S, 1906, Keep the figures in advance of the present date, Report promptly to this office when your paper is not received. All arrearages must bo paid when paper is discontinued, or collection will fee made in tho manner provided by law. The American Agriculturist main tains that "tho age has come when the man who makes a failure at every thing else, must make a failure at farming also." The .New York Sun thinks it will bo serious news to girls' seminaries that the pickle crop is short all over tho world this season. A trade journal announces, with something like dis may, that Europe is buying heavily in this country, which means higher prices soon. The crop in the Missis sippi River section was a failure. It is interesting as showing the propor tions of the pickle business that 260 car loads of pickles in brine were bought in Chicago recently for ship ment to the East and Europe. It has been decided to substitute civilians for enlisted men as attend ants at army post exchanges, formerly known as "post canteens," which are ased for purposes of refreshment, re creation and general club rooms by the regular soldiers. The change was uggested by General Schofield in 1890, and has since met with general favor. Tho main reason for it is that enlisted men have not proved success ful as managers at a majority of tho exchanges. General Brooke, com manding tho Department of the Platte, tins informed tho War Department that he has adoptod tho new system at ill tho canteens in his department, ind is confident that it will bo of *reat benefit to the persons directly Interested. His example will probably be followed by other department com manders. Birmingham, Engluud, is making a good thing out of the war in the East. Its gun and ammunition trade is more fcctive than it has been for twenty fears. The other week a Chinese agent placed an order for 20,000 rifles and bayonets, and over 10,000,000 military cartridges have been turned out during the past two months. Since the outbreak of hostilities no less than 150,000 rifles have been exported from the city. Most of these, however, were weapons discarded by Germany after the Franco-Prussian war. Birm ingham manufacturers bought them sheaf) to convert them into raoro modern weapons, but attempted con version was a failure, and, with true Brummagem thrift and cunning, they were shipped to South Africa, trans shipped in mid-ocean, and sold to the Chinese Government. The enterprising dime museum man ager, usually eager for novelties and freaks of nature, has just missed a most glorious opportunity, claims tho Washington Star. Mrs. Elizabeth Neal, colored, died last month in Oak land, Cal., at the age of 100 years and eight months. There was nothing so remarkable about her advanced age, for instances of such long life aro by no means so infrequent as to be con sidered among the marvels. The in terest in Mrs. Neal centres in her con fession that though she was born neur Richmond, Va., in 1791, and although Bho was well acquainted with a num ber of colored folks who were em ployed in the Washington household, she had never seen tho Father of His Country. She had seen a number of men who were pointed out to her as Associates of tho first President, but him she never saw. This is a most re markable iustauco of fortitude and truth. Jt stamps Mrs. Neal as a woman among a million. The edge of novelty was so long ago worn from tho person of the Washington body servant that thero is a refreshing charrn about the confession, n.ay, tho boast, of this honest dame, that she had never seen George Washington. Such a woman, i>roperly advertised and lectured about, would doubtless have made a fortnne for any exhibitor. With her perishes a tenacity to tho truth that may never again be dupli cated. Horned men and two-headed boys would have paled into insignifi cance beside her. THE HOUR OF PEACE rpon the door-stone sat the wife. The twilight falling, And far below the wklppoorwills'. Were softly calling. The sweet winds dropped upon [their way Their honey plunder. And slow and clear the night built up Its house of wonder. Within, the ehild dreamed deep, and saw Four angels keeping Their gentle watch with drooping wings About his sleeping. While singing from tho steep below, Where shadows slumbered. Jler true love climbed, .and in his heart His treasures numbered. And sighing faintly to herself With purest pleasure. Life brimming at her lips to full O'erflowing measure. She marveled If the happy earth, This summer even, Were not tho paved work laid before The courts of heaven. And yet. a cold wind from the cloud To snatch in blowing Tho little breath between tho lips So lightly llowing ; A pebble underfoot where sheer The rock descendod— Ah, Fate ! What slender chances held Her heaven suspended ! —-Harriet F. SpofforJ, in Harper's Bazar. "TILKEG BLACK BAGS." \ S I often say to my / /"V \ wife, when she / / \ \ blames me for for /,/ \ \ getting her little / , 1 A commissions, it's /if-'7 <\ " ( l ueer thing, is r-t -MS, \ themind,undgreat ' S tlje f° ICO of .™ j habit. i never forget to do nQy i|a|J Hstf- \ thing I'm in the I f 7' 7i habit of doing,but | as Tilly usually at- I f|[' to the shop * lk l^ n S herself, I'm not in the habit of calling at the butcher's or the grocer's on my way home from business, and, therefore —well, therefore, I don't i call three times out of live that she tells me to. Don't I catch it? No; not over much, anyhow. For one thing we haven't been married very long, and Filly agrees that it's only reasonable I should have time to learn to bo more careful, and, for another, if it wasn't for tho hold a habit has on me, I doubt whether we should be married yet, or at least we shouldn't be living in our own house, with tho furniture all bought at a large discount for cash. I am a clerk in the service of a firm of colliery and quarry owners at Ling ton, and every Saturday morning I go ou'- to Westerby, a village some thirty miles off among the Moors,' to puy the quarrymen thero their wages. It's an awkward sort of journey. I have to start by the first train in tho morning, which leaves Lington at 6, change at Drask, our junction with the main line, leave tho main line again at Thurley, some ten miles fur ther south, and tlo tho rest of tho dis tance in the brake van of a mineral train. Tho money—nearly a hundred pounds, mostly in silver—l always carry in a little black leather bag, one of those bags you see by scores every day, which may contain anything from a packet of sandwiches and u clean | collar to a dynamite bomb, and it's i my habit when in the train, to put my j bag on the rack facing me. J rarely 1 keep it on tho seat by my side, and I ! | don't like to put it up over my head. ' If it has to go thero because the op- [ i posite rack is full I unx always uneasy j about it, faucying I shall forget when ; I get out. I never huvo forgotten it I yet, but one Saturday in November, 1893, I did something which might have been worse. I took the wrong bag when F left tho train at Thurley. It happened in this way. On the Friday night I went out with Tilly to a party, which broko up so lato that I had only just timo to change my clothes and got a sort of apology for breakfast beforo catching my train. Consequently I slept all tho way from Lington to Drask, and at Drask I stumbled, only half awake, into the ' first third-class compartment I came In. Three of tho corner seats were occu ; pied and I took the fourth, though there was no room on tho opposite rack for my bag. I couldn't put it on the seat at my sido cither, bocauso the man in tho other corner had his legs up, and I didn't care to disturb him. f ought, of course, to havo kept it on my knees, and on any other morning I dare say I should havo dono so, but i it was heavy and 1 was very sleepy, j so I just slung it over my head, settled ! myself down uud dropped off' again al most beforo my train was clear of the ! station. | I didn't wake until wo stopped at Thurley, ami even then I fa coy I ! should have slept on if tho two men at tho far end of tho compartment had not wanted to get out. "What station is this?" I asked, sit ting up and drawing my legs from across the door to let them pass. "Ot terford, I suppose?" "No, Thurley," said one, and up I jumped in a hurry, took my bag, as I thought, from tho rack opposite me, and got down on tho platform just us tho guard whistled tho train away. "You ran it a bit lino that time, mister," remarked tho man who had saved mo from being carried past my destination. "I wonder if that other chap meant going on? Ho was us last asleep as you. ' "Oh, he's all right," said his com panion. "He's booked for London. 1 heard him say so when ho got in. Good morning, governor." "Good morning," I replied, and then, having thanked them for waking me, I made for tho siding, where my mineral train was waiting for me. "You look tired this morning, Mr. Corner,'' said thobrakeman as soon as we efatrted on our somewhat slow and wearisome journey. "T look what I feel, Jim," said I. "And I am as sleepy as an owl. I never went to bed last night." "Then lie down and have a sleep now, sir," suggested Jim. "Hero's some sacks and a rag to cover you. If the jolting don't wake yon, you may be sure I won't." The good-natured fellow kept his word, and as I am one of those happily constituted individuals who can sleep on or through anything, I felt much refreshed when we arrived at the quar ries after what Jim called *'a roughish passage" over the uneven surface of the moorland line, which had been laid solely to serve the needs of our quarries and some neighboring iron mines. ! After Lhad had a wash and dono full justice to a second breakfast at the "Miners' Arms," I felt ready to face my morning's work of making up tho men's pay sheets. While I was doing that the bag, which I fondly imagined to bo mine, lay on the table before me, nor did any doubt as to its ident ity trouble mo until I had finished my calculations and was ready to embody the results of them in sundry little heaps of gold and silver. Then, as I felt in my pocket for my keys, my memory began to entertain a vague suspicion that that bag was somehow unfamiliar to it. lam by no means an observant man, and as X couldn't have set down categorically the characteristics which distinguished my bag from others of like mako and shape, I felt rather than thought that tho one in front of me did not possess those characteristics. However, my key fitted tho lock, and as J turned it, my suspicions vanished, but only to be replacod a moment later by an astounding cer tainty. Instead of resting upon the familiar brown paper packagos of silver and littlo canvas bags of gold, my oyes wore dazzlod by a raany-colorod iridescence which shone forth from tho inside of that bag as soon as I opened it. "Diamonds, by Jingo!" I cried, as I started back amazed. The bag fell over on its side, and half a dozen loose stones rolled out upon tho table, where they lay spark ling gloriously in tho wintry sun shine. As soon as I rocovorod my self possession I picked thorn up and put them back into the bag, tho contents of which I then examined as well as I could without exposing them to tho view of any one who might lia2)pen to look in at tho office window, for, though I had no reason to suppose the quarry men wero not honest, I thought it best to keop my discovery to myself. Tho bag, I guessed, was probably tho property of a jeweler's traveler; a traveler in a large way of business, too, thought I, as I peered into it in tho least exposed corner of the olfico and found it almost full of what, little as I know about precious stones, I felt certain wero valuable jewels. But certainly travolers in jewelry did not usually pack, or rather omit to pack, their samples in such an utterly careless fashion? Kings, brooches, bracelets, looso stonos, at least one necklace, a gold watch and chain, somo bank notos and a con siderable sum of sovereigns wore all mixed up together in a chaotic con fusion which seemed at least incon sistent with business habits. I began to doubt whether it was even consistent with honest possession of, at all events, the contents of tho bag on the part of my lato fellow passengers—the man who was booked for London, and who had been asleep when 1 loft tho train at Thurley. No doubt ho was awake, and also aware of his loss by this time. What a statu of mind ho must bo in, too— but, just us 1 was trying to ronlizohis state of mind a murmur of gruff' voices and a shuffling of heavy foot in tho yard outside reminded mo that it was time to pay tho men. What had I better do? I wondered. Borrow whut I needed from tho notes and gold in tho bag that wasnotmiuo, or put tho men off with fair words till Monday? Thoy woro a rough lot, though, and if I adoptod tho latter al ternative there would probubly bo something very like a riot. It would bo wiser, I thought, to pay thom if 1 could get enough change to do it. Hurriedly summoning tho toremun and tolling him that a mistake had been made in supplying mo with monoy, I wont down into tho village, and, after somo trouble, succeeded in collootiug enough silver and copper to servo my purpose. Then, with that precious bag out of sight between my feet, I paid the men, who were already grumbling at the delay, at the same time doing my best to rully them into better humor, for I felt absurdly nervous, and was ready to credit the honest fellows with a ca pacity for crime which wero no doubt quite beyond tho compass oven of their imaginations. AB soon IIA I had finished my task I returned, per mineral train, to Thar* ley, and there I broke my journey. On calmly reviewing nil tho circum stances of the case in the seclusion of the brake van, I had dooidod that tho police, rather than the railway authori ties, ought to bo first informed of my mistake, and tho inspector to whom I told my story agreed with me. "I am very glad you came straight to me," said he, turning tho contents of tho bag out on his desk. "If you can hold your tongue for a week or two, it's just possible wo may catch tho gentleman who put this nice little lot together." "You think they have been stolon, then?" I asked. "Think!" he repeated, smiling at my simplicity. "I know, my boy. And when and where too —though un fortunately not by whom. Run your eye over this." "This," was a list of jewels and other valuables missing from Erlingthorpe, Lord Yerbury's place, near Drisling den, where, the inspector saidj^well- planned robbery had been cajrridftoo£< on the Thursday evening, "You sccn>to*havo went on; "but wo may* aA well go through tho articled seriatim." We did so, and found there was nothing missing, except the money I had taken to pay the men. "Our unknown friend hasn't even paid his traveling expenses out of the loose cash," commented tho inspector, and then he suddenly changed his tone. "Now, look here, young man," he went on, eyeing mo keenly, "I'm not in charge of this case—yet—but if you'll do as I tell you, I hopo I may be in the course of a few days. There's a tidy reward oflered for the recovery of the property, as you see. That, I take it, you've earned already; but are you game to help me catch the man ? There's a further reward for nabbing him, which, of course, I can't touch—officially—and don't particu larly want. My aim is promotion. Do you understand?" "I think bo,"' said I; "and lam willing to liolp you all I can." "Good," said the inspector, resum ing his jocular manner. "Could you identify your fellow sleeper, do you think?" "I'm afraid not." I replied. "He had a beard, I know—" "Which was very likely false," in terrupted ho; "but never mind. What wo want to do is to get our friend to claim the property either in person or by deputy. He's sure to bo a bit backward in coming forward, but he won't like to give up all that for tho little bit oi ready money there was in your bag, and if wo have patieuco we may draw him." "Well, what do you want me to do?" I asked. ! "Nothing," he replied; "just liter ally nothing. Go homo. Keep a still touguo in your head, and a sharp eye on the agony columns of the London papers, and wait till you hear from mo. I'll take chargo of these articles, and givo you a receipt for them, but don't be surprised if you see them still advertised as missing." A few days later tho inspector set his trap. It took tho shapo of an ad vertisement which appeared in tho— but no ; perhaps I had better not give tho name of tho paper ; according to Inspector Bland, it is the favorite jour nal of tho criminal classes—begging tho gentleman with whom "G. C." in advertently oxchangod bags to com municate with G. C. at tho address ho would find in G. C.'spocketbook. Personaliy, I didn't think our fieli would bo foolish enough to rise to this bait, but my friend the inspector was moro hopeful. "Luckily for us, Mr. Corner," said he, when I took advantage of my next visit to the quarries to call upon him, "there's always a sort of warp or twist in tho mind of the habitual criminal which prevents him from believing in tho honesty of other folks. Now, not a soul but you and 1 and the chief constable knows theso jewels nro as good as back on Lady Yerbury's dress ing table, or wherever else she's in tho habit of leaving 'em lying about. Therefore the hue and cry after them's not likely to die away yet awhile, and there'll bo u genuino ring about it which should persuade our unknown friend that you've got 'em and mean to convert 'em to your own use, as we say in the profession, but, being an amateur, don't know how to go about turning 'em into more cash than tho roward comos to, and that, conse- you nro anxious to come to terms with him. See?" I saw, but I was not convincod. Events, however, proved that the in spector was right. For u month later Lady Yerbury's diamonds were sought in vain and for a month "G. C." con tinued to appeal to his lato fellow traveler, also in vain, but at the end of that time his patience was rewarded by tho appearance of an advertise ment, telling him, if ho roally meant business, to write to "B. H." at a given address. Tho lettor J wrote at the dictation of Inspoctor Bland was moro cautious than incriminating, but as it pro duood a reply which tho inspector deemed satisfactory, it was followed by others less carefully worded, until at last it stood pledged to personally deliver, for a consideration of £2OOO, tho stolen jewels to one Bonjamin Ilurat, whom I was to meet at a public house in Chillingham. Now, I don't pretend to be braver than the average man of peaceful and sedentary habits, and when I saw what sort of a house tho "Spotted Dog" was, I began to wish I h id refused to have anything to do with Inspector Bland's scheme. Tho little company of disreputable looking loafers hanging about tho bar eyed me curiously as E entered, and when I asked the landlord if Mr. Hurst was in, one of them raised a general laugh by offering to carry my luggage up to him. "No lurks, Bill," said tho landlord sternly. "Mary, show tho gentleman Mr. Hurst's room." I found -Mr. Hurst a decidedly sur ly rascul. Ho begun to grumble at at tiro liurdneus of the bargain I was driving with him, and swearing at his luck generally. Then, being perhaps emboldened by the conciliatory man ner I thought it prudent to adopt, he tried to make hotter terms, offering mo first £SOO loss, and finally insist ing that ho ought at least to be al lowed to deduct from my £2OOO the sum X had used to pay the men. Inspector Bland had allowed mo a quarter of an hour for negotiations. At the end of that timo he proposed to make a raid upon the house. ! "And mind," he had said in his jocular way, "we don't find the prop erty still in you hands, Mr. Corner. It would be a pretty kettle of fish if wo had to prosecute you for unlawful possession, wouldn't it?" In accordance with theso instruc tions I haggled with Mr. Hurst a lit | tie while, and then allowed him to havodtis way, whereupon he, having satisfied himself that the Jbag which 1 restored to him still contained his spoils, handed me £I9OO in what after ward turned out to be very creditable imitations of Bank of England notes. "I suppose you don't want no re ceipt?" he growled. "No, thank you," said I, "I think we may mutually dispense with that formality. Good morning." I turned to leave the room as I spoke, but before I could unlock tho door it was burst open from tho out side, not, unfortunately for me, by tho police, but by tho man whom tho landlord had called Bill, a powerful ruffian, who promptly knockod mo down and knelt upon my chest. "Quick, Ben, get out of this," he cried. "It's a plant. No, no. The window, you fool," he added, as Mr. Hurst, bag in hand, made for tho door. "The police are in the bar al ready." As Mr. Hurst opened the window ho cursed me with much volubility and bitterness, and as soon as he was out side on the leads he did worse. "Stand clear, Bill," he cried, and his friend obeyed him. I scrambled to my feet, but immediately dropped again with a bullet from Mr. Hurst's revolver in my shoulder. I am not at all sorry that Mr. Hurst fired at me—as Inspector Bland Bays, it was much easier to convict him of attempted murder than to provo he actually stole thoso jewels, and tho inspector doubts, too, whether ho would have got fifteen years if merely charged with receiving them. But I do wish he hadn't hit me. However, even the pain my wound still gives is not without its compensa tion. It prevents me from feeling any twinges of'conscicnce when I re flect that my furniture cost Mr. Hurst his liberty, for Lord Yerbury took it for granted that ho was the theif, and paid mo tho extra reward he had of fered for his apprehension. Inspector Blaud won tho promotion he coveted, and is now stationed at Liugton. His wedding presout was characteristic. Jt was a black bag, with my initials on either side in white letters about six inches long.—All Tho Year Round. WLSM Faith always implies tho disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of tho greater. A man has to go to tho bad to get there. It never comes to meet him. Tho scientific study of man is the most difficult of all branches of knowl edge. A person is always startled when ho hears himself called old for tho first time. There are several things worsothan disappointment in love; rheumatism is one. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in tho same way, and tho fools know it. Little minds rejoice over the errors of men of genius as the owl rejoices at au eclipse. People get wisdom by experience. A man uevcr wakes up his second baby to see it laugh. Life is a circus in which everyone takes the part of tho clown some time during his sojourn. Wheu a strong brain is weighed with a. true heart, it seems like balanc ing a bnbblo against a wedge of gold. Everybody likes and respects self made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all. If fault is found because a woman is too devoted to her husband, it orig inated with women. Men never find such things. The man who boasts that he is no body's fool usually is so from tho fact that no one takes him when he gives himself away. You may set it down as a truth which admits of few exceptions that those who ask your opinion really want your praise. There are a good many real miseries in life that ws cannot help smiliug at, but they are smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples. Don't lot your heart grow cold, and you may carry cheerfulness and love wtih you into the teens of your second century, if you last so long. The Rush Line of Pollock. A remarkable sight to bo seen near ly any day at this soason in tho waters j about Eastport, Me., is the rush of | shoals of pollock. The fish is not > greatly prized, locally or elsowhere, ! but none of his size makes a bigger com | motion. When a colony of shrimps I starts seaward, or a quantity of refuso i from tho "sardine" canneries at Lubee j comes down on tho tide, tho water ! fairly boils with the rushing and leap ing of the pollock. At a distauco it looks at though the surface of the sea were beaten by hail or heavy rain.— Chicago Herald. The Dogs 01 Paris. Late returns show that Faris has SO, QUO registered dogs, or one to every twenty-eight inhabitants. The larg est number are in the poorest quar ters of the city. It cost §2,000,000 per annum to feed them, but the dogs in turn afford a living to twenty-five manufacturers of collars and muzzles, four bakers of dog's bread, five fac tories where dog biscuits, consisting of meat fibre, are made; three special dog pharmacies, a dozen infirmaries and two dog hospitals.—Chicago Hex aid. CONTRACTS WITH FARM LABORERS. In employing farm laborers it is always advisable to have a written con tract. In this should be specified the terms of the agreement, which will be binding on both parties. Thus the question if a hired man should havo his wages and board paid for during a temporary disability by sickness would be settled by the agreement. As a rule, the man is paid only for the timo he actually works, and when he is idle, for whatever cause, his board is charged to him. It would be most advisable for every employer to mako a written agreement with his work men as to all the various causes ofdis puto that ariso during tho working seuson.- New York Times. CUT BONE. Fall and winter are tho season in which to use cut bone. Many far mers neglect to feed it and give only grain. Tho results of such au exclu sive diet are readily seen in the re duced number of eggs. Others, again, considering tho trouble aud expense of cutting tho green bones, substitute bone meal therefor. They forget that the great value in the green bones lies in the perfect fresh animal food they contain, and which is necessarily lack ing in the bono meal. This animal food is rich, succulent and easily di gested ; besides, it is of a composite character, containing all the elements necessary for tho support aud de velopment of the body as well as for the production of eggs. Green bone is unique in its effect upon the chick en frame.—New York World. WINTERING CABBAGE. Cabbage will endure a good deal of freezing without injury, especially if it is not handled when in a frozen con dition. nence, it may be left stand ing until winter is about to set in. In burying it should not be covered too deep. For family use, a convenient method is to take one or more barrels and dig a hole so that tho barrel will be about half buried in tho earth. The soil should be heaped up over tho barrel as much as possible. The cab bages are trimmed of all outside leaves and packed in tho barrels as tightly as possible ; the mouth of tho barrel is filled with somo straw or leaves and covered with a board or some old carpet. The cabbage may be taken out at any time all winter un frozen and in good condition. If tho outside heads aro frozen one layer deeper in may be taken, and later in the season the frozen ones will be found to have thawed out and to be uninjured. Cabbage to be preserved for marketing in spring may be pulled and laid on top of the ground in rows, and a furrow ]flowed from each side upon the inverted plants. The work may be finished with a shovel. The plants should only havo the heads covered, the roots projecting into the air. In this way they will keep per fectly until warm weather.—American Agriculturist. ONION GROWING. It requires rich land to grow good onions, aud it must be fertility that has been gradually imparted to tho soil. You cannot take ordinary farm land and in a single season fit it for growing onions. Il' stable manure is used, it mako3 the soil too light while it is decomposing. Tho best onions are grown on mucky soil that has several seasons been cultivated to shallow depth, and that is then kept in fertility with some kind of concen trated manure. Thero needs to be a hard stratum of soil three or four inches below the surface. This makes tho onion roots spread out near the surfaco, producing onions of flat shape. When the soil is mellowed too deeply a large proportion of tho crop will grow to scullions. The seed from scullions will produce scullions in ro turu. As there is a constant tendency to deterioration it is highly important that only the best seed bo used. The skilful seed grower understands this difference, and his seed from onions that havo for many crops been selected from thoso having the best form is well worth the extra price that is asked for it. Tho best profits in growing onions are now made by starting tho growth the previous season, planting very thickly aud saving the sets while they are small. These are transplanted in spring, and produce an curlier crop thau can bo got from seed. They also are much less trouble to keep freo from weeds, as the rows of young onions can bo saen within a few days after planting, and they grow very rapidly. —Boston Cultivator. HOW TO MOVE LARGE MAPLES. To a correspondent who asked how to move and prune somo large maplo trees, six or seven inches in diameter, the editor of Garden and Forest re plies: In removing trees the roots are generally injured to a greater or less extent, aud thoso which aro bruited must be cut away ; it is good practice to prune in tho branches to u corresponding extent, no that there will be not more loaves than the roots can supply. Norway maples of tho size indicated cannot be removed without tho loss of many roots, and pruning will bo necessary. Such pruning will bo perfectly safe, as these maples are not injured more thau any other trees by this operation. A great deal of this pruning can be effected by thinning out the inner branches, but thero should be no hesitation about cutting back limbs where this seems necessary. When the ends of tho branches are pruned they should bo cut back to a limb, the wounds should be covered with coal tar, and no stubs should be left to decay. In removing such large trees it is good practice to prune the roots back by digging a trench about the trees, say five feet from the trunk, and if this trench is filled with good soil new feeding roots will start out during the next year, so that tho tree will be in excellent con dition for removing in a year from the coming winter. Large trees can be removed with success, but it costs timo and care and money. Persons who do not choose to go to the extra expense, however, can console themselves with the reflection that, as a rule, it is best to plant small trees, and that a treo ten or twelve feet high will probably be as large in ten years as one planted at the same time when it was twenty five feet high. HANDLING CORN FODDER. John Howat, lowa, tells in tho Homestead how he handles corn fod der. He says: Take an oak polo twelve feet long that will square threo or four inches, set it in the rear end of your hayrack, bolt it to the cross bar of your rack, use two pieces of 2x4, one seven feet, the other nine; bolt these to tho same crosspicce as tho pole, then bolt to the pole at their upper ends, bracing it at two places, owing to tho different lengths; use a 2x4 five feet long to brace on the for ward side of tho pole to the bottom of rack ; nail on ; take 2x4 twelve feet? long and fasten with a pivot on the pole, five feet above the floor of the rack, fasten the other end with rope or chain seven or eight feet long to tho top of the upright pole. This makes a swinging arm that will swing out over your shock on oither side. Put a pulley on outer end of swinging arm, another at lower end and one at the rack; run a good rope through. Use a horse to pull up tho shocks. Put a rope around the shock, tie a hook on end of long rope, hook in rope OD shock and hoist. The man on tho wagon should havo a guy rope at tached to the hook to guide the shock as it swings up. Use a piece of rope on every shock, leaving them on till you unload, when you can use tho der rick to unload. If your stack gets high, shorten your ropo from pole to swinging arm, raising the latter, giv ing more room for stacking high. By this method all tho fodder is saved, and all the unpleasant part of hand ling corn fodder avoided. Two men can tie and load ten shocks in twenty minutes. We did it, and "what man has done, man may do." For a pivot, I used a largo staple driven into the pole, with tho bolt takon out of an old neckyoke, with an eye on one end through which tho staple was put, and the arm driven on the bolt. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Make your stock comfortable. Milk quickly but not hurriedly. Let "serene" good nature prevail. Feed at regular intervals, changing the food occasionally and cautiously. The farmer who attends to his poul try and gives it proper feed and shel ter makes it pay well. It is easy to stunt a growing animal, but by no means easy to undo the evil. Bear this in mind. A clean pen and a clean trough, good nourishment and proper exer cise,t aro tho pathways to success. Many farmers neglect their oppor tunities. They ought to know that hens will pay well as their cows, sheep or hogs if taken care of. Good fences are an important thing on every farm, and they need to be kept in good repair. Keep weeds and brush well culled out of tho corners. Do not neglect your vegetable gar den. No other portion of the farm is a better-paying investment. Keep some of your luxuries for tho home table. During tho winter months small potatoes may bo cooked with bran and cut clover seasoned with a littlo pepper. This makes a most excellent hash for fowls. It should never bo forgotten that poultry need some kind of green food at all seasons of tho year. In winter thoy can be given cabbage, onions, turnips or chopped rye. Whenever you have any milk loft over, whether it is sweet or sour, give it to the poultry. It contains much of the needed egg-making material— and can in no other way be so profit ably utilized. Poultry make a good adjunct to the dairy. The advantage of meadow or pasture grasses for cattle and sheep are that they afford a variety. Animals havo preference for certain foods, and thrive best when they can select food which is most palatable and necessary lor supplying their wants. No well-regulated farm is without its flock of thoroughbred poultry. There is, in fact, no better paying stock—taking into consideration cap ital and labor invested. Keep also turkeys, ducks and geese. They aro all profitable on the furin. It may bo possiblo to tako off profit able crops and maintain the fertility of the land without tho aid of stock but the average farmer cannot do it. Selling from the farm constantly and restoring nothing to the land is only selling the farm away piecemeal.
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